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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who cut off a sibling, please stop reaching out to him. My brother doesn't respect that I want nothing to do with him. Every so often, he'll pop back into my life with an e-mail or text. It's infuriating, to be honest. And I also make it a point to ignore anything from him. Responding would only encourage him to keep contacting me.

Regardless if your brother's reasons for cutting communication were legitimate, they are still his reasons. He doesn't want a relationship with you. Yes, that hurts. But it is his decision. If and when he wants to reconnect, he will be the one to initiate. You can't force it.[/quote]
It's "infuriating" that a relative wants to reconcile?  Please explain what's so horrible about that?  Your response sounds so much like a situation in my family that I would swear you were my sister.  Please help me understand.[/quote]

I cut my brother off because he did some morally awful things and refuses to take responsibility for them. He hurt me and people I care deeply about because he's, well, a selfish prick. And so I told him our relationship is over, end of discussion, and not to contact me. That he persists in contacting me is just him continuing to think he can run roughshod over others, their feelings be damned, because it is what he wants to do. So, yes, it's infuriating.[/quote]

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